coarct

English

Verb

coarct (third-person singular simple present coarcts, present participle coarcting, simple past and past participle coarcted)

1. To coarctate.

   a coarcted aorta

   • 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 30:

     All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, […]

References

• “coarct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.